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Karnataka heading for fixed load-shedding

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August 22, 2015

Bengaluru, Aug 22: The deficient southwest monsoon has led to reduced power production forcing the Sate to resort to scheduled load-shedding in the next few days.30BGPOWERCUT 1222570f

The State government may have directed Bengaluru Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) to ensure effective power supply till Saturday, the day of polling for the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike elections, but many areas of Bengaluru have been experiencing unscheduled power cuts for the past two days.

Bescom Managing Director Pankaj Kumar Pande, however, attributed them to local problems and denied that the company had resorted to load-shedding.

Kumar said the government had been drawing up a plan to conduct scheduled load-shedding, including in Bengaluru.

“Now that we have completed the process of power purchase from the open market, a plan will be chalked out for load-shedding in a day or two. It will be finalised based on the shortage and availability,” he said.

Meanwhile, escoms, including the Bescom, will spend an estimated Rs 3,400 crore to purchase power from the open market to tide over the power crisis resulting from the deficient monsoon.

They are expected to spend an estimated Rs 350 crore per month on short-term power purchases.

The Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission on Friday gave escoms the nod to purchase 1,000 mega watts (MW) of power at Rs 5.08 per unit till May 2016.

Currently, about 6,400 MW is available against the total requirement of 8,000 MW.

The power shortage is mainly to due to a decline in water levels of hydel reservoirs and recent outages at the Udupi Power Corporation Ltd and Ballari Thermal Power Station (BTPS).

The total capacity in the three major hydel reservoirs of Linganamakki, Mani and Supa is about 4,000 million units (MU) against 6,573 MU during the same period last year, said Additional Chief Secretary to the Energy Department P Ravi Kumar.

Due to these outages, the State is now generating hydel power at its full capacity of 40 MU, as against a normal of 12-14 MU during the monsoon season. The current storage at the reservoirs will be exhausted in about 100 days if this continues.

Of the two 500-MW BTPS units, one is under maintenance and another tripped on Thursday, said Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KPTCL) Managing Director Jawaid Akhtar.

He added that the KPTCL had planned to procure 750 MW at Rs 5.08 per unit from this September 15 to May 2016.

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March 28,2020

Mangaluru, Mar 28: After a youth from Dakshina Kannada who tested positive for the deadly Covid-19 revealed that he had travelled by a bus, authorities have requested all his fellow passengers to visit their nearest district hospital. 

The 21-year-old man hailing from Belthangady taluk had flown from Dubai to Bengaluru on March 21 and on the same day travelled to Mangaluru by the KSRTC bus bearing registration number KA 19, F3329. 

As he was suffering from fever and cough he was admitted to Puttur government hospital on March 24. He was tested positive for the novel coronavirus on March 27.   

It is not yet know how many passengers were there on board the above mentioned bus which had departed Bengaluru at 4:30 p.m. on March 21. It is believed that most of the passengers who travelled by this bus are residents of Dakshina Kannada. 

Hence, the KSRTC authorities today requested all the passengers who travelled by this bus to visit their nearest district hospital for necessary checkup. The passengers also were urged to quarantine themselves for next couple of weeks.

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April 19,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 19: In order to boost the Coast Guard's (CG) surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities on the country's west coast in Karnataka, CG OPV Varaha and CG Dornier 785 ex Kochi were pressed to service to undertake extensive surveillance.

"Both seawards and aerial surveillance of Karnataka coast line will be undertaken from Sunday," said S Babu Venkatesh, Commander, Coast Guard, Karnataka. The surveillance will be an air-sea coordinated operation.

The Coast Guard ships and aircraft maintained extensive search in the area for intercepting any suspect vessel. Indian Coast Guard ships classified various contacts in the area and kept them under constant surveillance.

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January 9,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 9: Customs officials seized 1.575 kg gold, worth about, Rs 63 lakh from three passengers who arrived from Dubai here at Mangalore International Airport on Thursday.

Official sources said that in the first incident, three days back gold weighing 336.7 grams was found in possession of an inbound air passenger. The passenger who arrived by Air India flight from Dubai had concealed the gold in his socks. The value of the seized gold is estimated to be Rs 13.43 lakh.

In the other two instances that took place on January 7, gold weighing 1239 gram and worth about Rs 50.3 lakh was confiscated from two passengers who arrived from Dubai by Air India flight. One of the passengers had attempted to smuggle 523 gram gold in paste form.

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